A new study from the
Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the right wing loon fringe very happy. Apparently, those whiney cry babies that ran around under Miss Bush's skirt all grew up to become... well... conservative.
At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.
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More on da' flip.
So, the whole 'whiney liberal thing,' if I am to use my college minor correctly, is simply
projection, something we've insisted on all along. Apparently, the goddamned bastards that made school a conscription... that demanded restrictions and rebuffed personal freedom, grew up to create the conservative meme... you know, we need to be fearless in the face of the terrists... err... that is to say, "We need to eviscerate the constitution so the big bad men in the turbans don't give us all BIG FUCKING BOOBOOS. How is freedom useful to me if EVERYONE is free? That hardly makes it a privilege, now doesn't it?" The 'dittohead' or whatever you want to call those people that have such narrow minded and compulsive behavior that, clearly, thinking for yourself is more than dangerous -- it's unnatural!
But fear not neocon, for there is hope:
For conservatives whose feelings are still hurt, there is a more flattering way for them to look at the results. Even if they really did tend to be insecure complainers as kids, they might simply have recognized that the world is a scary, unfair place.
See.. being a self righteous pussy is TOTALLY explainable! Hooray for fewer unknowns!